I found my username: Tionnsgainn, in an online Gaelic dictionary. It had caught my attention the first time I saw it and it has stuck with me since. However, the dictionary that I was looking at did not have a pronunciation guide. If anyone could help me out with how to say "Tionnsgainn" that would be great. I do know that it is Scots Gaelic if that helps.

Matthew

Three things that enrich the Bard: Myths, poetic power, a store of ancient verse. --Welsh Triad

The three great melodies of Creation: the wind in the tress, the stream at snowmelt, the cry of a new-born babe. -- Triad

It's a bit hard to represent Gaelic sounds in phonetic English because the consonants have different sounds depending on whether they're broad or slender which can be a little difficult to write in another language.

The T followed by an i is something between a "T" and "Ch"sound (ch as in 'chat'), it's a slender sound.
The : in between the letters above is just to try to identify the sounds of the letter groups for you, not to imply that there's a pause between them. You just pronounce it like a disyllabic word, not tri-syllabic.

Thanks along Beith. That helps a lot. I have been pronouncing it Tee-uns-gain or Ty-uns-gain. This will help me pronounce it a little better now. Thanks again.

Hi Tionnsgain

Your pronunciations are absolutely fine! (Just different spellings to mine) The -gainn is indeed a -gan or -ken sound like the -gain of the english word again /a:gen/ but not so much like English 'gain' /gayne/ sound.

The tionn- is just as you have it, teeun or tyun (where y = ee sound). Just don't separate it into highly distinct strained syllables. it is run-together (rhymes with 'shone' as in "the sun shone").

Just enter the word, press the "Synthesise" button ... and Voila! -- Then press the "PLay mp3" button or other options and a lovely female voice will pronounce the word for you in Irish Gaellic (which, in most instances is reasonably close go leor to the Scots, etc.).
Cheers!